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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell
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Oliver Cromwell
Age: 59 †
Born: 1599
Born: April 25
Died: 1658
Died: September 3
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More quotes by Oliver Cromwell
That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
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WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
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Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Those who stop being better stop being good.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.
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Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.
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Necessity has no law.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together and God is far more above nature.
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A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
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Make the iron hot by striking it.
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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
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